Posted on 12/22/2014 6:23:17 AM PST by marshmallow
Open letter makes an appeal for an end to 'marginalisation' of those attached to Extraordinary Form
The Latin Mass Society has written to all the bishops of England and Wales asking them to reach out to Catholics attached to the traditional Mass.
Joseph Shaw, chairman of the LMS, invited bishops to visit Extraordinary Form congregations to see that they were “not a source of division, but a demonstration of a truly Catholic unity in diversity”.
He began the letter, published in the Mass of Ages, the LMS quarterly magazine, by expressing gratitude for the “almost complete disappearance of the hostility” towards the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
“In this positive development you, our Bishops in England and Wales, have played a crucial role,” he said. “The question arises: is there any reason for those with the care of souls to go beyond toleration, and actually to facilitate or promote this form of the Mass?”
Dr Shaw cited Benedict XVI’s Letter to Bishops, accompanying his 2007 motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, in which the pope said: “It behoves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
“almost complete disappearance of the hostility” towards the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.
...the individual expressing that sentiment has obviously not been listening to the bishops of my local diocese...
Sanctus Johannes XXIII ... ora pro nobis!
... "make a mess" ...
But traddy Catholics ARE a source of disunity. They stand in the way of the bishops’ snuggling up to pro-abortion politicians, snuggling up to Castro, welcoming gay couples to Communion, etc., etc.
“But traddy Catholics ARE a source of disunity. They stand in the way of the bishops’ snuggling up to pro-abortion politicians, snuggling up to Castro, welcoming gay couples to Communion, etc., etc.”
^BINGO!
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